The purpose of this study is to investigate the social and cultural contexts of 1QS (Serek ha-Yahad) by means of a textual study. The analysis of the text is performed in a synchronic perspective. This means that lexical choices, grammatical forms, references, topics, themes, and intertextuality are analyzed text-internally. By doing so, this study sheds new light on old questions of textual cohesion and coherence, questions that until now have been dealt with mostly from a diachronic perspective. The text analysis entails investigation in view of three interrelated dimensions of language function: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. These imply language as transmitting information, creating and sustaining relations, and functioning to organize itself into cohesive units. Although applying some of the terminology from the field of text linguistics (SFL), the focus in this study is on what a text means rather than why. This means that the semantic-pragmatic aspects of language are of foremost interest here. The analysis is performed from bottom and up, then from top down again. Words, phrases, and sentences are investigated up to the broadest linguistic level, namely, to the semantic discourse itself. With an understanding of the larger discourse at hand thanks to this analysis of textual cohesion and coherence, textual details are once again revisited and interpreted anew. In this work, 1QS is analyzed from beginning to end—chronologically, so to say. Then, at the end of each major section, the discourse is analyzed overall. Following the text analysis, conclusions of the investigations are presented. The conclusions argue that the hierarchal structure of the community and its stringent regulations are to be understood as a corrective in response to corrupt society. It is also argued that language in 1QS has a performative function. Rather than describing the way things are, it aspires to evoke the ideal society. Instead of understanding 1QS and the community mirrored in it as a deviant group with little or no contact with the surrounding world, it is then understood as a potent contribution to late Second Temple Jewish discourse concerning how to create a just society and a sanctifying cultic practice. In the final chapter, the insights gained from textual analysis of 1QS are brought into encounter with the theoretical framework posited by French historian and philosopher René Girard (1923–2015). In light of Girard’s philosophy, the hierarchal organization of the community (the Yahad) as well as its regulations can be interpreted as an effort to prevent a mimetic crisis. The function of the scapegoat in 1QS is discussed in light of Girard’s grand theory of the mechanisms of scapegoating in all societies. The study closes with the tentative hypothesis that the community in 1QS deconstructs the scapegoating mechanism by taking the role of the scapegoat upon itself.

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La théorie des genres se trouve à l’origine même de la conceptualisation par les études littéraires de leur objet. Les théoriciens des genres ont d’abord analysé les caractéristiques internes des genres comme entités réelles. Cette approche a provoqué une crise portant précisément sur la réalité — ou l’irréalité — de ces catégories, que les chercheurs ont voulu résoudre au XXe siècle grâce à une posture pragmatiste s’intéressant aux conséquences pratiques des catégorisations génériques davantage qu’aux genres littéraires en tant que tels. En s’attardant ainsi sur les conséquences pratiques de la généricité, la perspective pragmatiste, qui domine de nos jours la génologie, a mis de côté la composante imaginaire des genres. Cette dernière s’avère néanmoins centrale pour comprendre le rapport complexe des individus et des collectivités à la littérature. Aussi cette thèse argue-t-elle que les genres littéraires, loin d’être de simples catégories abstraites, sont des représentations. Après avoir revisité la notion de genre à partir de celle de représentation, la présente recherche s’engage dans une exploration de l’imaginaire des genres littéraires. Des exemples tirés de la théorie des genres, des origines à nos jours, permettent d’observer que même les génologies construisent des représentations des genres qu’elles entendent pourtant aborder de manière objective. Ensuite, la thèse se penche sur la littérature franco-canadienne contemporaine, qui constitue un formidable laboratoire pour explorer cette nouvelle théorisation du problème des genres littéraires, montrant que les catégories génériques reflètent dans ce corpus des enjeux sociaux, politiques ou existentiels. Les analyses présentées invitent en fin de compte les chercheurs à élargir leur compréhension de la généricité et à porter attention à sa dimension imaginaire, qui n’a, jusqu’ici, jamais été introduite dans une théorisation générale de la question des genres littéraires.

Comment l'Église catholique peut-elle témoigner de la Bonne Nouvelle évangélique et être reconnue comme un espace habitable pour tous ? Quelles structures pourrait-elle adopter, qui puissent aider les communautés humaines à articuler leurs diversités ? Quelle est la juste place du gouvernement et de l'enseignement dans l'Église ? Quelles communautés peut-elle constituer, qui soient à la fois ouvertes et attentives à sa propre tradition comme à celle des autres ? Gustave Thils [1909-2000], théologien louvaniste, était bien placé pour traiter ces questions particulièrement complexes. Son apport s'étend sur trois périodes distinctes : avant, pendant et après le Concile Vatican II. Son œuvre est très variée, car ses intérêts théologiques se voulaient en prise sur l'actualité de l'Église et du monde. La thèse cherche à présenter une vision systématique et globale de son ecclésiologie. Après une brève biographie de G. Thils et un résumé de ses options théologiques dominantes, le chapitre 2 traite de la méthode historico-critique qu'il a mise en œuvre dans ses études, de l'influence de René Draguet sur sa réflexion, et de ses ouvertures vers une nouvelle herméneutique théologique. Le chapitre 3, intitulé L'ecclésiologie en général, aborde divers éléments de son ecclésiologie On y analyse d'abord l'histoire complexe des « notes » de l'Église et les questions théologiques importantes qu'elles soulèvent. On traite ensuite de l'identité du prêtre à partir de son apostolat, de son rattachement au diocèse, de sa participation à la charge pastorale de l'évêque et de son « devoir » de sainteté. Thils a contribué, par ailleurs, à l'émergence d'une théologie du laïcat, à partir de sa réflexion sur les « réalités terrestres ». Il a développé en outre le thème de l'égalité entre tous les membres de l'Église et celui de la vocation universelle à la sainteté. À propos de l'évêque, Thils s'inspire d'une lecture critique de la constitution Pastor aeternus de Vatican I. C'est ensuite dans Lumen gentium 21 que Thils trouvera de nouvelles ressources pour redéfinir l'identité de l'évêque, sa mission, sa responsabilité propre et son rapport à l'Église locale. Au-delà des thèmes particuliers, Thils propose quelques principes permettant une bonne interprétation des textes de Vatican II, veillant à en relever les intuitions originales, les développements doctrinaux, ses relations avec la Tradition et son ouverture aux signes des temps. Le chapitre 4 étudie le problème de l'œcuménisme. Il suit Thils dans sa description de l'histoire doctrinale du mouvement œcuménique [études antérieures à 1965], avant de proposer un commentaire du Décret sur l'œcuménisme de Vatican II et de décrire la position générale de l'Église catholique par rapport à la rencontre des Églises. Comme support de celle-ci, Thils propose le thème des « éléments d'Église ». Le chapitre 5 développe la place de la papauté dans la théologie catholique. On y étudie les questions de l'infaillibilité et de la primauté. Thils propose une analyse critique du texte de Pastor aeternus de Vatican I, analyse débouchant sur le thème capital de l'infaillibilité in credendo du Peuple de Dieu. Dans ce contexte, l'auteur souligne que le magistère épiscopal, y compris celui de l'évêque de Rome, a comme fonction essentielle d'interpréter le dépôt de la foi. En rapport avec l'ecclésiologie, le chapitre 6 traite de la théologie des religions non-chrétiennes. Thils défend l'existence d'une révélation universelle et la présence, hors de l'Église, d'un logos spermatikos qui appuie et éclaire la volonté salvifique de Dieu. Tout en sauvegardant la place privilégiée du christianisme comme ultime Révélation de Dieu, Thils jette un regard résolument positif sur les religions non-chrétiennes, considérées comme des valeurs appelant un complément. La conclusion synthétique cherche à mettre en évidence l'évolution des intérêts théologiques successifs de Thils, ainsi que leur ancrage dans une ecclésiologie en constante mutation.

This dissertation examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I focus—Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Hernández, René Marqués, Pedro Juan Soto, Magali García Ramis, Severo Sarduy, and Jesús Díaz—do not merely imitate the European model but revise, adapt, and often subvert it thematically and, in some cases, aesthetically. I argue that these bildungsromane differ, for the most part, from the European prototype due to their openly political themes, such as the establishment of the Estado Libre Asociado in Puerto Rico, the 1959 Revolution in Cuba, and, in the case of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo’s dictatorship. I claim that Dominican bildungsromane do not propose national projects or models but rather question the purported homogeneity of identity of the country as a normalized political body. On the other hand, in Cuba and Puerto Rico the genre has been used to promote absolute discourses of nationality as well as political projects that must be questioned due to their discriminatory and sometimes racist and violent nature.

This dissertation examines the bildungsroman genre in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. A close examination of the development of this genre demonstrates that it has ideological implications that link the young protagonists’ development with that of the nation. The authors on whom I focus—Ángela Hernández, Rita Indiana Hernández, René Marqués, Pedro Juan Soto, Magali García Ramis, Severo Sarduy, and Jesús Díaz—do not merely imitate the European model but revise, adapt, and often subvert it thematically and, in some cases, aesthetically. I argue that these bildungsromane differ, for the most part, from the European prototype due to their openly political themes, such as the establishment of the Estado Libre Asociado in Puerto Rico, the 1959 Revolution in Cuba, and, in the case of the Dominican Republic, Trujillo’s dictatorship. I claim that Dominican bildungsromane do not propose national projects or models but rather question the purported homogeneity of identity of the country as a normalized political body. On the other hand, in Cuba and Puerto Rico the genre has been used to promote absolute discourses of nationality as well as political projects that must be questioned due to their discriminatory and sometimes racist and violent nature.

My goal is to study the nature of the Marvelous in René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves. I want to demonstrate that René Depestre, in his novel, combines a number of surrealist or neo-surrealist premises that have influenced him as a Haitian writer. This goes beyond differences that can be discerned between the "Surrealist marvelous" endorsed by André Breton and the surrealists, and Alejo Capentier's "marvelous real"later proposed by Jacques Stephen Alexis as "marvelous realism" Depestre adapts Haitian natives' perceptions deep-rooted in their historical and social, cultural and religious past and ever-existing political and economical struggle. Taking into account both the surrealist perspective and the Haitian context, I shall address the complexity of the concept of the Marvelous and discuss Depestre's use of "zombification"as a form of metamorphosis, which preserves the mystical nature of Vodou as a religion that syncretizes the Roman Catholic ritual of exorcism of the Christian West and the animist and magical practices inherited from Africa. Scholars have explored the Marvelous and marvelous realism in Depestre's works as a whole, but not in Hadriana dans tous mes rêves specifically. The exclusive nature of this study will show that Depestre draws from Haiti's complex cultural ethos as well as from surrealism'es key principles, to create a hybrid Marvelous typical of Haiti and Depestre'es aesthetic as a writer. / text

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Estudo crítico e tradução da Primeira Parte da Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, que ficou conhecida como Lógica de Port-Royal (1683), para a língua portuguesa. O estudo volta-se para a análise dos capítulos I a VIII da Primeira Parte e visa a explicitar o caráter híbrido desse manual de lógica, estruturado com o formato dos manuais de lógica escolásticos, inspirados no Organon aristotélico, e marcado pela recepção e vigência de teses cartesianas fundamentais. Embora o legado de Aristóteles se manifeste mais do que em seu formato, a Lógica de Port-Royal deve ser lida como um manual de lógica moderna naquilo que condiciona a sua inteligibilidade: a introdução de requisitos epistêmicos na determinação do domínio da lógica. No processo de reforma da lógica iniciado no século XV, Port-Royal se inscreve não apenas na crítica da concepção de lógica como instrumento para a demonstração silogística da ciência (como já o tinham feito, por exemplo, os lógicos renascentistas), mas na defesa da lógica como reflexão prática epistemicamente orientada, caracterizada pela tomada do juízo como ação mental definidora do domínio lógico. A presença de exigências epistêmicas deriva, em Port-Royal, da leitura de Descartes e do debate deste com Antoine Arnauld. Teses fundamentais do cartesianismo são arregimentadas para o projeto lógico de Port-Royal: a prioridade do pensamento sobre a linguagem; o desprezo da linguagem e da imaginação; a tese de que o uso de palavras derivaria da função, a um só tempo cognitiva e lógica, do juízo como definidora da lógica e, condicionando todas essas, a tese fundadora do cartesianismo enunciada na proposição Penso, logo sou. É a leitura arnauldiana do cogito cartesiano, defende este estudo, que dá a ver como se pode pensar o cartesianismo em lógica. A análise dos primeiros oito capítulos é temática, e a perspectiva reformista da Lógica de Port-Royal é apresentada no estudo da transição dos capítulos III para o IV, e do V para o VI, bem como do VII para o VIII. No capítulo VIII, o estudo se detém sobre o peculiar tratamento port-royaliano dos termos complexos. Em seguida, volta-se ao que configura o pressuposto subjetivo dessa concepção de lógica e à expressão representativa desse pressuposto, apresentados nos capítulos I e II da Primeira Parte do manual, onde os requisitos epistêmicos de uma lógica de ideias são apresentados e onde o caráter representativo dessas ideias obtém sua vestimenta gramatical (sujeito, predicado e adjetivo), veiculando determinações lógicas (coisa, modo da coisa, coisa modificada). Por fim, o estudo busca, na correspondência que Arnauld manteve com Descartes, em 1648, a origem e o fundamento da concepção de cogito que estará em vigor em Port-Royal, de maneira explícita, a partir de 1662. / Critical study and translation of the First Part of Logic or the Art of Thinking, known as Port- Royal Logic (1683), for the portuguese language. The study is focused on the analysis of chapter I to VIII of the First Part and aims to clarify the hybrid character of this manual of logic, which has the structure of scholastic logic manuals, inspired by the Aristotelian Organon, and the reception and effectiveness of key Cartesian theses. Although the Aristote’s legacy is far more importante than the shaping of the manual structure, the logic of Port-Royal should be read as a manual of modern logic in what conditions its intelligibility: the introduction of epistemic requirements in determining the domain of logic. In the process of reformism in logic started in the fifteenth century, the Port-Royal Logic is inscribed not only in the critic of the conception of syllogistic logic as a tool for the demonstration of science (as, for example, the renaissance has done), but also with the defense of logic as a kind of practical reflection epistemically oriented, characterized by tacking the judgment as the mental action by excellence, which defines the logical domain. The presence of epistemic requirements is derived from the impact of Descarte’s philosophy on Port-Royal and from his debate with Antoine Arnauld. Fundamental thesis of Cartesianism are regimented to the port-royalian conception of logic, as the priority of thought over language, the contempt of language and its origin, imagination, and, conditioning all these, the founder of Cartesianism thesis as stated in the proposition I think, therefore I am. The study argues that interpretation of the Cartesian cogito by Antoine Arnauld, mostly, offers a way to think Cartesianism in logic. The analysis of the first eight chapters is thematic, and the reformist perspective in Port-Royal's Logic is presented to study the transition of the III chapter to the VIII. Then, back up to the defended position, that is the assumption that the conception of subjectivity, of knowledge and the representative expression of this assumption are presented in Chapters I and II of the First Part of the manual. In these chapters are established the requirements of an epistemic logic of ideas and of the representative character of these ideas, which get its grammatical outfit (subject, predicate and adjective), conveying logical determinations (a thing, a manner of a thing and a modified thing). Finally, the study seeks in the correspondence that Descartes maintained with Arnauld, in 1648, the origin and the foundation of the concept of cogito which will be in force in Port-Royal, explicitly, from 1662.

Estudo crítico e tradução da Primeira Parte da Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, que ficou conhecida como Lógica de Port-Royal (1683), para a língua portuguesa. O estudo volta-se para a análise dos capítulos I a VIII da Primeira Parte e visa a explicitar o caráter híbrido desse manual de lógica, estruturado com o formato dos manuais de lógica escolásticos, inspirados no Organon aristotélico, e marcado pela recepção e vigência de teses cartesianas fundamentais. Embora o legado de Aristóteles se manifeste mais do que em seu formato, a Lógica de Port-Royal deve ser lida como um manual de lógica moderna naquilo que condiciona a sua inteligibilidade: a introdução de requisitos epistêmicos na determinação do domínio da lógica. No processo de reforma da lógica iniciado no século XV, Port-Royal se inscreve não apenas na crítica da concepção de lógica como instrumento para a demonstração silogística da ciência (como já o tinham feito, por exemplo, os lógicos renascentistas), mas na defesa da lógica como reflexão prática epistemicamente orientada, caracterizada pela tomada do juízo como ação mental definidora do domínio lógico. A presença de exigências epistêmicas deriva, em Port-Royal, da leitura de Descartes e do debate deste com Antoine Arnauld. Teses fundamentais do cartesianismo são arregimentadas para o projeto lógico de Port-Royal: a prioridade do pensamento sobre a linguagem; o desprezo da linguagem e da imaginação; a tese de que o uso de palavras derivaria da função, a um só tempo cognitiva e lógica, do juízo como definidora da lógica e, condicionando todas essas, a tese fundadora do cartesianismo enunciada na proposição Penso, logo sou. É a leitura arnauldiana do cogito cartesiano, defende este estudo, que dá a ver como se pode pensar o cartesianismo em lógica. A análise dos primeiros oito capítulos é temática, e a perspectiva reformista da Lógica de Port-Royal é apresentada no estudo da transição dos capítulos III para o IV, e do V para o VI, bem como do VII para o VIII. No capítulo VIII, o estudo se detém sobre o peculiar tratamento port-royaliano dos termos complexos. Em seguida, volta-se ao que configura o pressuposto subjetivo dessa concepção de lógica e à expressão representativa desse pressuposto, apresentados nos capítulos I e II da Primeira Parte do manual, onde os requisitos epistêmicos de uma lógica de ideias são apresentados e onde o caráter representativo dessas ideias obtém sua vestimenta gramatical (sujeito, predicado e adjetivo), veiculando determinações lógicas (coisa, modo da coisa, coisa modificada). Por fim, o estudo busca, na correspondência que Arnauld manteve com Descartes, em 1648, a origem e o fundamento da concepção de cogito que estará em vigor em Port-Royal, de maneira explícita, a partir de 1662. / Critical study and translation of the First Part of Logic or the Art of Thinking, known as Port- Royal Logic (1683), for the portuguese language. The study is focused on the analysis of chapter I to VIII of the First Part and aims to clarify the hybrid character of this manual of logic, which has the structure of scholastic logic manuals, inspired by the Aristotelian Organon, and the reception and effectiveness of key Cartesian theses. Although the Aristote’s legacy is far more importante than the shaping of the manual structure, the logic of Port-Royal should be read as a manual of modern logic in what conditions its intelligibility: the introduction of epistemic requirements in determining the domain of logic. In the process of reformism in logic started in the fifteenth century, the Port-Royal Logic is inscribed not only in the critic of the conception of syllogistic logic as a tool for the demonstration of science (as, for example, the renaissance has done), but also with the defense of logic as a kind of practical reflection epistemically oriented, characterized by tacking the judgment as the mental action by excellence, which defines the logical domain. The presence of epistemic requirements is derived from the impact of Descarte’s philosophy on Port-Royal and from his debate with Antoine Arnauld. Fundamental thesis of Cartesianism are regimented to the port-royalian conception of logic, as the priority of thought over language, the contempt of language and its origin, imagination, and, conditioning all these, the founder of Cartesianism thesis as stated in the proposition I think, therefore I am. The study argues that interpretation of the Cartesian cogito by Antoine Arnauld, mostly, offers a way to think Cartesianism in logic. The analysis of the first eight chapters is thematic, and the reformist perspective in Port-Royal's Logic is presented to study the transition of the III chapter to the VIII. Then, back up to the defended position, that is the assumption that the conception of subjectivity, of knowledge and the representative expression of this assumption are presented in Chapters I and II of the First Part of the manual. In these chapters are established the requirements of an epistemic logic of ideas and of the representative character of these ideas, which get its grammatical outfit (subject, predicate and adjective), conveying logical determinations (a thing, a manner of a thing and a modified thing). Finally, the study seeks in the correspondence that Descartes maintained with Arnauld, in 1648, the origin and the foundation of the concept of cogito which will be in force in Port-Royal, explicitly, from 1662.